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Gary Pisner v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Maryland, No. 23, September Term, 2023 · judgment July 14, 2025
(petition-stage, structural)
Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can issue an opinion containing finding of facts and conclusions of law relating to disbarring an attorney after refusing to address extensive, constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies
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Whether the court that has jurisdiction over lawyer disciplinary matters can use finding of facts and conclusions of law generated by a lower court or administrative entity, in a disbarment proceeding, after that lower court or administrative entity either refuses to address extensive constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies or claims that it lacked the jurisdiction to cure the referenced constitutionally mandated due process deficiencies and nevertheless generates a constitutionally defective product
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Can a court assign and use a finding of facts and conclusion of law of a state entity when there are unaddressed, outstanding related prosecutorial misconduct vindictive prosecution and other issues related to that state entity?
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Must a lawyer disciplinary proceeding address all Constitutional Due Process issues before the evidentiary proceedings that were raised at the start to avoid interjecting false and prejudicial material, which could undermine constitutional rights and procedural remedies in the future?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Gary Steven Pisner
For respondent
Rachel L. Stewart
Office of the Attorney General of Maryland
Proceedings
- Aug 19 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 07 2026Waiver of right of respondent Attorney Grievance Commission of Md. to respond filed.
- Jan 20 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 18, 2026)
- Nov 06 2025Application (25A516) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until January 17, 2026.
- Nov 02 2025Application (25A516) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 18, 2025 to January 17, 2026, submitted to The Chief Justice.